Huh.............?

Where is everyone? :(

/whines/

No one likes me!!!!!!! :

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Ok, I'm kidding! I guess everyone is busy. So ignore the above whining. I can get like that a lot! :p


Chapter Nine

Talks and Fights

It was no use. Lenny could not sleep. This plan of his twin really unnerved him. He never liked fighting and it was against his pacifist beliefs to kill someone. His dad had told him that would not happen, but he was sure there could be another way to deal with the Vong. We could work out an arrangement if we all sat down and talked. No need for blood shed, thought Lenny. The problem was he could not convince Ladora of that. He could not convince of her of anything.

He sighed. Whenever he worried about something, he would always get up and practice his healing powers. He got out of bed and started toward the sick bay. There was a miniature bacta tank in the sick bay. They had start building it in the past month. It was almost done. It would not treat severe injuries, but it would keep a person in stable condition until they could get to a suitable med center.

"Hello?"

Lenny turned around the corner. This was supposed to be the longest part of their journey. He thought everyone was asleep. "Anakin? What are you doing up?"

Anakin stood in front of one of the entrances to the gun turrents. "I'm finishing my lightsaber. What are you doing up?"

"I can't sleep."

Anakin seemed to be looking through the younger boy. He then looked back at the gallery. "Hey, let's get something to drink and sit down to talk." He looked back at Lenny. "Maybe you could get to sleep after that."

Soon they were sitting on the acceleration couch, talking about Lenny's troubles. The topic quickly turned to Ladora. "I can't convince her of anything. She just hits me or something. I don't know what to do."

"Have you tried talking to her in front of someone, like your parents?"

"Yes, and they have punished her whenever she hurts me, but it doesn't stop her. Mom says Ladora almost makes her glad she didn't have to raise four kids."

"Do you have anything in common with her?"

"No." Lenny looked down at his drink. "She helps me with my healing abilities, mainly inventing things I can use, but that's it."

Anakin leaned back, a skeptical look on his face, "That's it? Surely there's more than that."

"No." Lenny looked down at his drink. "She helps me with my healing abilities, mainly inventing things I can use, but that's it."

Anakin leaned back, a skeptical look on his face, "That's it? Surely there's more than that."

"No." Lenny raised his cup, but brought it back down as he remembered something. "Wait, there's one thing. It's a Force power we can do together, but it happened long ago and we were forbidden from doing it again."

"Well, what is it?"

"We call it Invoking. We were playing with the Force and did something (I can't remember exactly what). We saw a light and then it disappeared. Our parents and Tygeris ran in our room not long after that. After we told them what we knew happened, Dad and Tygeris forbid us from doing that exact process again. Only time Ladora listened to Tygeris."

"You don't know anything about this power." Lenny shook his head and watched as Anakin closed his eyes. He must be trying to figure out how Invoking works. Anakin's eyelids tightened. His forehead wrinkled. "Ahh! I can't do it," said Anakin, opening his eyes. "How did you guys achieve it?"

"I told you. We don't remember and no one will tell us, that is if they know." Lenny finished his drink and stood up, feeling somewhat better. "Thanks for the talk."

"No problem. Any time"

Lenny started back to his quarters. He passed the sick bay and stopped, trying to decide whether he should work on the bacta tank or not. Deciding to work on it later, he turned around…and bumped right into Ladora. "Sorry, sorry," he said hastily.

Ladora had her armor draped over her shoulder and her hands were on her hips, but he could not tell if she was mad or not. It was hard to tell. That was how he always got hurt, not knowing how mad she was and pushing it. "What are you doing?" she said, her eyes narrowed.

"Talking with Anakin," he said quickly. He wondered why she was up, too, but was not going to ask. He was afraid it might anger her.

"I was recharging my armor's computer system," she said to his unspoken question. She turned and went to her quarters. When she got there, she turned and gave him a stony look. "Go get some sleep. I was under the impression a prince of Theed needed sleep." She disappeared into her room.

Lenny sighed. "Don't worry. It'll get better," said Anakin as Lenny felt the older boy's hand on his shoulder.

"I can best Ion in debate, talk freely to my mom and dad. I bet I could even have great conversation with my older brother and sister, if we knew each other, but I can't talk normally to my own twin."

"For now. It will get better."

I doubt it, thought Lenny.

I don't.

Lenny looked over at Anakin and smiled. "Thanks."

Anakin smiled back. "No problem."

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"Prince?!" Ken shouted out. "What kind of codename is that?"

"The kind that is broad, but easy for the team to remember!" Ladora shouted back.

Lenny and the others (minus Anakin) were in the Probe's small hanger in an attempt to avoid the heated argument in the main hold. The shouting grew louder as Anakin came in with his hands over his ears. The door shut behind him and muffed the yelling. "And Uncle Luke said Mom and Dad argued," said Anakin. "Who wins?"

"Ladora," everyone said in unison.

Anakin nodded and everyone went back to standing around, waiting for the argument to end.

Caiya wrapped her wings around her body and under her arms so she could wear her uniform. She had not been happy with the idea of wearing something other than her hunting tunic as she commanded to do by the Terr Code. She had to get special permission from the Pride Counsel to wear the uniform.

"Thank you, Lennke," said Caiya as Lenny handed her the armor. He felt a pang of regret at hearing his real name from Caiya. Tyrigeans considered nicknames as a sign of people who were very close. He very much wished she called him by his nickname.

"People think of Palpatine whenever they hear Ken, Jedi Prince! I don't want that!" shouted Ken.

"The reason you're a prince is because your mother was a princess!"

"It doesn't matter, it's on both sides! I'm still thought of as Palpatine's grandson!"

"Then deal with it!" shouted Ladora, her tone final.

Finally, it got quiet. "I'll see if it's ok," said Talon. He went to the hanger door and opened it just enough so he could see. "It's all right," he told them. "They're just staring at each other."

Everyone let out a great sigh of relief and started back to the main hold. Ken was sitting on the couch, glaring at Ladora, who was standing next to the console. Lenny looked between the two, amazed that they could get so angry, but be so friendly with each other later.

"Is anyone else going to object to their codenames?" demanded Ladora, her tone clearly saying she wanted no arguments.

"It would be helpful if we knew what our codenames were. You and Ken started your argument before the rest of us could receive them," stated Caiya.

Ladora stared at her best friend, but Lenny did not feel any anger from her. Instead, she seemed to relax. She hardly got angry at Caiya. Probably because their personalities were a little alike. "Ok. Your codename is Warrior," she said in a more controlled voice. "Lenny, yours is Healer One, Lusa; Healer Two, Chewie; Mechanic, Rene will pilot the ship, Talon will man the console and monitor the battles, I'm Chaos, and Anakin is Little One."

Lenny quickly looked over at Anakin. He looked like he was going to object. Please don't, thought Lenny. Anakin abruptly turned to Lenny and did not say anything.

"Good," said a satisfied Ladora. "We're at the Parallel point above Abregado-rae." Anakin gave her a quizzical look. Lenny leaned over and quietly told him that they were over the planet in the Parallel Galaxy. "My sources tell me this planet is the Vong's next target. Finish getting ready. We're leaving in six minutes."

After that, she left. Lenny sighed. "I wonder what it's like to have a normal family," he mused out loud.

Anakin laughed. Lenny looked over at him to see why he was laughing. "Lenny," said Anakin, "in my experience, there's no such thing as a normal family."

Lenny grinned and started to laugh, too, ignoring the slight giggles of everyone else.
It's two chapters away from the end of part one! :) This may get caught up to the JC version. /starts to worry/ Man! It's going to be bad then. :(